No robots, just extremely talented craftsmen. Everyone had a job; the machines were there as helpers. The skilled work was done by humans. The Wurlitzer Theatre Organ was an amazing piece of engineering. Stop and think of all the things that humans are capable of doing and creating. Amazing!

And it’s a privilege to help keep one playing !

True craftsmanship. Gone, but not forgotten or appreciated. Thanks for the great lesson in American history.

Thanks for finding and posting this. I find videos of craftsmen plying their trades in the factories of the 1920s and 1930s to be some of the most interesting.

Wonderful video thank you for posting. Such skill and craftsmanship. Few organs survive now unfortunately and imcomprehensible that so many were just scrapped.

My father and mother met while they both worked at Wurlitzer. They were married in 1929 and lived on Shawnee Road within sight of the factory. Dad made pipes for the pipe organs and Mom proofed the paper rolls which produced the music on the band organs.

Super excellent with very good interesting video

I remember growing up listening to the wonderful music of 3 Wurlitzer band organs that operated on the Looff carousel out at Playland at the Beach in San Francisco. They had 3 Wurlitzer band organs, one Wurlitzer 165 and 2 Wurlitzer 153's that played wonderful waltzes 👍

Nothing like good old history

Amazing on so many levels. The logistics involved in building so many organs in such a short amount of time, and all this for just about 15 years and then it's already the end with the arrival of talkies.

My hometown, many of my family members worked there.

Master craftsmen ..........

So! Thankful that this silent film [dating from the early 1920s - based upon the hair styles of female employees] has survived - to the present day. Films pre-1929 that have survived to the present day are the exception, not commonplace - due to the film composition of the period - referred to as Nitrate film. [Highly flammable and prone to deterioration - even under optimum archival climate-controlled storage]. What an inspiration to present this film accompanied by the factory's most famous product - the Wurlitzer Theater organ.

Thank you so so much for bringing this to us. The saddest part is all these wonderful craftsmen have left us. But left us with these wonderful instruments.

Wonderful video ! Thank you for posting ..... Bravo !

I wonder when did Wurlitzer stop manufacturing pipe organs? I know at one time possibly in the 1950s, they were making electro static reed organs, before going to electronic oscillator generators.

There is a WurliTzer in Glasgow, Scotland, 21 ranks, in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall which sounds amazing which I tuned for 20 years. The workmanship is superb as is the voicing.

Blackpool Pleasure Beech has one at the Tower Ballroom

The scary thing is: no safety equipment in sight and toxic fumes everywhere. That is one area where we have made progress in manufacturing- more emphasis on safety.

What happened to this instrument? I'm hoping it wasn't destroyed like so many others.

Oh my gosh this place feels so weird knowing how old it is

Sorry But you need to correctly identify the location The Wurlitzer plant was in NORTH Tonawanda a completely different place

Is either the Granada theatre or its Mighty Wurlitzer still in existence??

Please, please, this factory is/was NOT located in Tonawanda, N.Y. Tonawanda is another city in a whole different county. This Wurlitzer factory is/was located in NORTh Tonawanda, N.Y.

I wonder how many man hours went into producing one organ?

1920’s?

I think almost every household in America had a Wurlitzer organ.